Method of, and means for, preparing forms for ruled charts and sheets



Jan. 15, 1935. F, H. POEPPELMEIER 1,987,635 METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR PREPARING FORMS FOR RULED CHARTS AND SHEETS Filed Dec. 17. 1951 JANUkRY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

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AUGUST JAN FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY - JUNE JULY AUGUST mum" INVENTOR' /IMJ; ,v fiwbemw, BY MA M 5. 4/ 44 ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE METHOD OF, AND MEANS FOR, PREPARING FORMS FOB. RULED CHARTS AND SHEETS Frank H. Poeppelmeier, Dayton, Ohio, minor,

by mesne assignments, to Set-O-Type Manufacturlng Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a co ration of Delaware m Application December 17, 1931, Serial No. 581,660 25 Claims. (Cl. 95-85) My invention relates to new and useful method are clip rails 8 of metal or other suitable material. of, and means for, preparing forms for ruled Where these rails meet at the corners of the charts and sheets. board, their adjacent faces 10 are mitered as One of the principal objects of my invention shown at Figure 1. Rubber feet 11 are attached is to provide a form to which opaque strands may to the underside of the board at its corners to a be applied in any desired position, spacing or provide e a space below the C p rails. grouping from which sheets may be reproduced (See Figures 1, 2 and 3.) photographically for use in an offset printing Cemented or otherwise attached to the top pr0cess face 4 of the board 1, with the even marginal l0 Another object of my inventionis to provide on edges of he board exposed, is a fiat white opaque a form of this type graduations or an incised et 12 uch as c lluloid. (See Figure 1.) scale to assist in the correct positioning of the h the xp d n l edges of he op face t d 4 of the board 1, and between the sheet 12 and the Another important object of my invention is to spacing strips are a d embossed or in- 15 provide white sheets of paper on which printed eised lines 3, spaced in relation to the notches 6 15 matter such as columnar headings and other nod pon ngly numbered along opposite tatlons may be typed or printed and then insertedges, as wn at Figure 1. ed under the strands for reproduction with the w in Order o provide quickly changeable ruling lines. lines upon the face of the sheet 12, I have prostil th object of my invention is th vided flat black strands 14,suchasthread, cotton 20 provision of wide opaque marginal bands with covered wire strands or catgut. These pass across means for attaching them to the margin of the the Sheet 12 to be received y the P pe notches ruled form to prevent reproduction of undesired 6. one strand end is P vi w h h ok haped marginal li clip 15, to whose apertured end 15* the strand is Other important and incidental objects will be eeeiired- 25 set forth in the following specification and claims h Other r nd end has attached thereto a subjoined thereto. Smell helical tension p ng 16 to which another In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a ip like the clip is secured- The p ing face view of my chart form showing a prepared 16 tend t0 keep the strands taut; 0 t P ovide ruling. FigureZis an end view of my chart form. a better S S P- Each p e d. where it 86 Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 projects beyond the rail, s an aperture 18. of Figure 1 and showing the strand tension spring W the strands are placed in their desired P and clip. Figure 4 is a, sectional vie n th sitions, with single strands for fine lines 14 and line H f Figure 1 and showing t th of double strands 19 for heavier lines, printed mat- 5 producing closely spaced rulings. And Figure 5 011 strips 20 f Wh p per may be inserted ge is a i i d d m of a ruled sheet probeneath the strands 14 where it will be retained duced from the form and shown at Figure 1. y the tension of them, or these i s 2 may be Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 indiattached to the board or master sheet by adcates a board or core, preferably square, and hesives.

having tt h d to it surrounding edges by When the arrangement of the strands for the so screws 2, spacing strips 3 of metal or other suitd sir d lin i completed n the P n mat able material. These strips 3 project slightly to be used s n d, it s necessary to block O above the top face 4 of the board 1 and their proportions of the marginal lines where they extend .iecting edges 5 are provided throughout their beyond the desired composition; and for this length with equally spaced notches 6. The purpos I have p v d d paqu white c n s notches are spaced in any standard or desired sysstrips 21 P n hll These strips tem of measurement, vertically and horizontally, are provided at One end w One Of the ips 1 to receive correctly typed or printed matter that end at the other end with one Of the p n 1 may b combined t t ruling- Also t and clips 17, to hold the strips tightly across the width of the notches 6 are equal to one half of face 01 the strands- 50 their center to center spacing. (See Figures 1 In certain rulings it is necessary to provide and 2.) double lines in close relation, and when this re- Secured to the under side of the board 1' by uit is desire with this p f board, I e hr screws 7 or other suitable means, and projecting strands as shown at Figure 4. These are comoutwardly along the marginal edges of the board, posed of two outer black strands and a center 68 2 white strand, which will produce the result shown at Figure 5.

From the foregoing description of my invention, it will be apparent that any type of ruling or spacing, either horizontally or vertically, or both, may be very quickly set up on my improved form, and that any desired printed matter can be easily inserted in the form in proper registration with the strands to enable immediate reproduction of the entire ruled form for use in offset printing or other desirable printing processes.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A means of the type described, comprising a board, a form-receiving sheet applied to said board, notched marginal edges for said board, the

notches therein being spaced in any desired system of measurement, a plurality of strands, a hook on one end of each strand and a tension spring on its other end, and rails along the notched edges of the board to receive the hooks and springs on the strands after the latter have been inserted in the desired notches for a predetermined placement upon the sheet.

2. A means of the type described, comprising a rectangular board, scale graduations along each marginal edge of the board, strips containing notches opposite said graduations, secured to the marginal edges of the board, a form receiving sheet applied to said board, and strands removably placed in the notches opposite the desired graduations at the marginal edges of the board, to lie across said sheet.

3. A means of the type described, comprising a rectangular board, a form-receiving sheet applied stationarily to said board, strands secured to the board to lie across the sheet, and data containing paper strips insertable under said strands for reproduction with the lines defined by the latter on the sheet.

4. A means of the type described, comprising a rectangular board, a form-receiving sheet applied to said board, strands secured to the board to lie across the sheet, data-containing paper strips insertable under said strands for reproduction with the lines defined by the latter, and blocking strips secured to the board over the strands and the marginal portions of said strips which project beyond the desired composition on the sheet.

5. A method of preparing a form for reproduction for an offset printing process, which consists in applying a form-receiving sheet stationarily to a holder, and then stretching strands across said sheet to define lines thereon, the sheets and strands presenting a light and dark contrast.

6. A method of preparing a double line on a form for reproduction by the ofiset printing process, which CudSiStS in applying a form-receiving sheet to a holder, and then stretching two black strands, with a white strand between them, over said sheet.

'7. .A method of preparing a form for reproduction for an offset printing process, which consists in applying a form-receiving sheet stationarily to a holder, stretching strands across the sheet to define lines thereon, and inserting data-containing strips on the sheet under said strands.

8. The combination of a base adapted to carry an image, strands adapted to lie over the same, anchoring means for the strands and springs interposed between each strand and one of its anchoring means.

9. The combination of a base adapted to carry data to be reproduced, there being a similarly spaced set of fixed notches on opposite sides of the board, and strands adapted to extend straight across the base and occupy said notches.

10. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination of a rectangular base, similarly spaced notches on opposite sides thereof, strands adapted to be stretched across the base and occupy corresponding notches, so that the strands will be parallel with each other, and springs for tensioning the strands.

11. The combination of a base, adapted to carry matter to be reproduced, a strand adapted to lie across the matter to be reproduced, a spring attached to the strand and a hook connected with the spring, whereby the strand may be tensioned and anchored to the base, the base having a ledge under which the book may extend.

12. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a flat base adapted to receive an image to be reproduced, notched bars carried by the base at its opposite edges, projecting ledges carried by the base and strands adapted to occupy notches of the bars and having hooks adapted to engage the ledges.

13. The combination of a rectangular board, provided with projecting ledges at each of its four edges, said ledges comprising projecting plates secured to the bottom of the board, a set of strands adapted to extend crosswise over the board, said strands havinghooks adapted to ex-. tend over the-ledges.

14. The combination of a rectangular board, projecting ledges at the four edges thereof, four notched bars carried by the board at the edges, and having their notches adjacent the plane of the top of the board, strands adapted to extend across the board in two directions at right angles to each other, the strands occupying the notches of the corresponding bars, and hooks on the ends of the strands adapted to hook under the projecting ledges, whereby a form ruled and divided into columns may be produced.

15. In a device of the character described, the combination of a base adapted to hold an image, scale graduations on opposite sides of the base, an upwardly facing notch permanently associated with each scale graduation, and means for holding under tension strands which extend across the image and occupy the notches.

16. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of a rectangular board, four bars secured to the edges of the board and extending upwardly beyond the same and provided with equally spaced notches, four ledges secured to the base of the board and projecting beyond its four edges, four scales carried by the face of the board adjacent the bars, opposite scales being equally graduated, strands adapted to extend in two directions at right angles to each other crosswise of the board, said strands occupying notches in the corresponding bars, a hook attached to one end of each strand and adapted to coact with one of the ledges, a spring at the other end of the strand, a hook attached to said spring adapted to coact with the ledge at that side of the board.

17. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination of means for holding a sheet to be reproduced and means for holding, stretched across the sheet, two parallel strands of a character adapted to be photographically reproduced and an intermediate non-photographic strand.

18. The combination of a board adapted to character, whereby two carry a sheet to be reproduced, means providing a. pair of notches on the directly opposite sides of the board, three strands occupying said notches and drawn taut therein, the intermediate strand being of a non-photographic character and the two extreme strands being of a photographic, parallel spaced lines may be reproduced.

19. A means of the type described, comprising a holder, a substantial white opaque form-receiving sheet stationarily mounted on said holder, and dark strands secured to the holder to lie across the sheet.

20. A means of the type described, comprising a board, a fiat sheet applied stationarily to said board, a flat form mounted on the sheet and strands adjustably secured to the edges of the board to lie stationarily across said sheet and form.

21. A means of the type described, comprising a board, a form-receiving flat sheet applied stationarily to said board, bars at opposite sides of the board rising above the top plane of the board and having their exposed edges notched, and strands adjustably secured in said notched edges to lie across said sheet.

22. The method of making up a form for reproduction, comprising mounting a sheet of parallel printed lines on a fiat member and stretching strands of a color contrasting with. the sheet over the sheet to form rule lines between the printed lines on the sheet.

23. The method of making a reproducible form of ruled data for printing, comprising taking a sheet on which is an image of certain data to be reproduced arranged in transverse lines on a. contrasting background and stretching strands of a color contrasting with the background over the sheet with the strands running at right angles to said lines to divide the matter into columns.

24. The method of making up a form for reproduction, comprising taking a sheet, light as to color, which has data thereon and stretching strands, dark as to color, across it in two directions at right angles to each other, to divide the data into lines and also into columns.

25. An apparatus for producing a ruled form for reproduction, comprising a base having a white opaque face adapted to carry an image to be reproduced, dark strands adapted to lie over the base and hooks for attaching the strands.

FRANK H. POEPPELMEIER. 

